Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children about their purpose in life – to know You, to love You, to serve You during this life and to be with You and the Father and Your Holy Spirit forever in heaven.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children the Ten Commandments and the Six Precepts of Your Church.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children the need and importance of worshipping the Father with You on Sundays and Holy Days.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children the need and the importance of confession.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children the reality of sin and how to resist our inclinations to sin.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children the importance of daily prayer – especially the praying of the Rosary.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children the reality of our guardian angels and their roles in our lives.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children the reality of devils and how they entice us to sin and to reject God's love and His way to holiness.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children how to deal with their weaknesses – psychological and emotional - through our spiritual gifts and tools.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children the importance and benefits of Eucharistic Adoration.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children how to love others through serving them.

Forgive us, Lord Jesus, for having failed to teach Your children their role in evangelizing our brothers and sisters of other religious beliefs.

Lord Jesus, help us, not only to repent of our failures to teach Your children, but also to begin to teach them through the power of Your Holy Spirit and through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the saints - our brothers and sisters – in heaven.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Grace MizziYou must be logged in to see this link.Send Oh Lord Holy Apostles into your church“Christ has no body but yours, no hands butyours, no feet but yours.Yours are the eyes through which Christ’scompassion must look upon the world.Yours are the feet with which He is to go aboutdoing good.Yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.”St. Theresa of Avila